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Computer Science
UK
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
74
Citations
23299
World Ranking
1486
National Ranking
85

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
71
Citations
20826
World Ranking
856
National Ranking
39

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Kin K. Leung is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of computer science, with a focus on computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and related subfields. Their research spans a range of topics including privacy-preserving technologies in data, mobile crowdsensing and crowdsourcing, IoT and edge/fog computing, software-defined networks and 5G, optimization and search problems, network security and intrusion detection, and stochastic gradient optimization techniques.

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of federated learning, resource management, and reinforcement learning applied to edge computing and wireless communications. Notable papers include:

  • Model Pruning Enables Efficient Federated Learning on Edge Devices, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • Energy-Efficient Resource Management for Federated Edge Learning With CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Delay-Sensitive Energy-Efficient UAV Crowdsensing by Deep Reinforcement Learning, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Ensuring Threshold AoI for UAV-Assisted Mobile Crowdsensing by Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning With Transformer, 2023, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Low-Latency Edge Computing in 6G, 2021, IEEE Wireless Communications

Their frequent co-authors include Don Towsley, Ananthram Swami, Liang Ma, Prithwish Basu, and Ting He. Collaboration with these researchers has contributed to multiple interdisciplinary projects bridging computing and networking technologies.

Kin K. Leung publishes regularly in a variety of venues, with a significant number of works appearing in arXiv (Cornell University). They have also published multiple papers in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and the MILCOM 2021 - 2021 IEEE Military Communications Conference.

In their main fields of study, Kin K. Leung has contributed a total of 74 publications primarily in computer science, with extensive work in embedded subfields such as computer networks and communications (30 publications), artificial intelligence (27 publications), electrical and electronic engineering (8 publications), information systems (7 publications), and computer science applications (5 publications).

Best Publications

  • A Survey of Indoor Localization Systems and Technologies

    Faheem Zafari;Athanasios Gkelias;Kin K. Leung

  • Adaptive Federated Learning in Resource Constrained Edge Computing Systems

    Shiqiang Wang;Tiffany Tuor;Theodoros Salonidis;Kin K. Leung

  • A survey on the ietf protocol suite for the internet of things: standards, challenges, and opportunities

    Zhengguo Sheng;Shusen Yang;Yifan Yu;Athanasios Vasilakos

  • MAC Essentials for Wireless Sensor Networks

    Abdelmalik Bachir;Mischa Dohler;Thomas Watteyne;Kin K Leung

  • When Edge Meets Learning: Adaptive Control for Resource-Constrained Distributed Machine Learning

    Shiqiang Wang;Tiffany Tuor;Theodoros Salonidis;Kin K. Leung

  • Dynamic Service Placement for Mobile Micro-Clouds with Predicted Future Costs

    Shiqiang Wang;Rahul Urgaonkar;Ting He;Kevin Chan

  • Live Service Migration in Mobile Edge Clouds

    Andrew Machen;Shiqiang Wang;Kin K. Leung;Bong Jun Ko

  • Traffic models for wireless communication networks

    K.K. Leung;W.A. Massey;W. Whitt

  • Dynamic service migration in mobile edge-clouds

    Shiqiang Wang;Rahul Urgaonkar;Murtaza Zafer;Ting He

  • Systematic Codebook Designs for Quantized Beamforming in Correlated MIMO Channels

    V. Raghavan;R.W. Heath

  • Dynamic service migration and workload scheduling in edge-clouds

    Rahul Urgaonkar;Shiqiang Wang;Ting He;Murtaza Zafer

  • Context-Awareness for Mobile Sensing: A Survey and Future Directions

    Ozgur Yurur;Chi Harold Liu;Zhengguo Sheng;Victor C. M. Leung

  • Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols

    Ekram Hossain;Kin Leung

  • Method for called party control of telecommunications network services

    Kin K. Leung;Gabriel Gary Schlanger

  • Energy-Efficient Radio Resource Allocation for Federated Edge Learning

    Qunsong Zeng;Yuqing Du;Kaibin Huang;Kin K. Leung

  • Dynamic Service Migration in Mobile Edge Computing Based on Markov Decision Process

    Shiqiang Wang;Rahul Urgaonkar;Murtaza Zafer;Ting He

  • Conditional electronic coupon distribution method and system

    Kin K. Leung;Hui Luo;Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan

  • ESTIMATION AND REPORT SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC INFORMATION

    Maaku Jiefurii Fuoradaaru;Shierii Bii Goorudoman;Kin Kee Reungu;Izuhaku Ronen

  • Frequency assignment for multi-cell IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

    Byoung-Jo J. Kim;Kin K Leung

  • Efficiently providing multiple grades of service with protection against overloads in shared resources

    Gagan L. Choudhury;Kin K. Leung;Ward Whitt

  • Energy-Efficient Radio Resource Allocation for Federated Edge Learning

    Qunsong Zeng;Yuqing Du;Kin K. Leung;Kaibin Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhiguo Ding
Zhiguo Ding Nanyang Technological University
Ananthram Swami
Ananthram Swami United States Army Research Laboratory
Don Towsley
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chi Harold Liu
Chi Harold Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
Dennis Goeckel
Dennis Goeckel University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zhengguo Sheng
Zhengguo Sheng University of Sussex
Li-Chun Wang
Li-Chun Wang National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Ward Whitt
Ward Whitt Columbia University
Paul Shala Henry
Paul Shala Henry AT&T (United States)
Hujun Yin
Hujun Yin University of Manchester

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